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Section
245.010
Definitions.
Section
245.015
Owners may form levee district, where — articles of incorporation to be filed in circuit court.
Section
245.020
Circuit clerk to give notice by publication — form of notice — mailing required.
Section
245.025
Objections to incorporation heard — court decree filed with secretary of state and county recorder.
Section
245.030
Adjacent districts may consolidate — petition, hearing and decree.
Section
245.035
Time of corporate existence may be extended.
Section
245.040
Districts may reorganize.
Section
245.045
Districts reorganized to receive all benefits — reorganization articles of association to be filed with circuit court.
Section
245.050
Notice of reorganization hearing.
Section
245.055
Procedure.
Section
245.060
Election of board of supervisors — term of office.
Section
245.065
Improper election of board of supervisors — court to declare vacancies — new election called.
Section
245.070
Board of supervisors to call annual meeting and election — owners of land benefitted entitled to vote.
Section
245.075
Supervisors to take oath.
Section
245.080
Organization of board — to make annual report — compensation.
Section
245.085
County clerk and treasurer to deliver records and moneys of district to secretary of board.
Section
245.090
Secretary of board to be ex officio treasurer — board to audit books annually and publish financial statement.
Section
245.095
Powers and duties of supervisors.
Section
245.100
Chief engineer appointed — duties.
Section
245.105
Chief engineer to make report — supervisors to adopt plans and supplemental plans for reclamation.
Section
245.110
Secretary of board to file copy of plan with circuit clerk — commissioners appointed.
Section
245.115
Organization of board of commissioners.
Section
245.120
Commissioners to inspect district and assess benefits and damages — report to be filed.
Section
245.125
Property owners notified of commissioners' report by publication — form of notice — mailing required.
Section
245.130
Exceptions to commissioners' report heard and determined.
Section
245.135
Court to declare corporation dissolved if costs exceed benefits.
Section
245.140
Plan of reclamation may be changed — procedure.
Section
245.145
Damages assessed must be paid before appropriating land.
Section
245.150
Board to construct works — may let contracts for construction.
Section
245.155
Embankments on right-of-way to be raised at expense of owner to conform to district levee.
Section
245.160
Board to employ attorney.
Section
245.165
Board to keep record of proceedings — open to inspection.
Section
245.170
Board to provide for compensation of employees and fees of officers.
Section
245.175
Board to levy tax to pay cost of organization.
Section
245.180
Board to levy tax, when — new tax authorized, when — tax, how levied — secretary to prepare levee tax record.
Section
245.181
Additional bonds authorized, when — meeting, votes how cast — form of notice — notice, how given.
Section
245.185
Annual installment of tax to be levied — when due — form of certificate of tax.
Section
245.190
Board may make additional levy of tax.
Section
245.195
Board may levy maintenance tax — unprotected lands not taxable.
Section
245.196
Annual benefit fee, how levied, amount.
Section
245.197
Readjustment of benefits, when — levy of new tax for carrying out supplemental plan — notice, how given — form of notice — lists, where filed.
Section
245.198
Tax levy, when — emergency levy of ten percent.
Section
245.199
Additional bonds authorized when — how issued.
Section
245.200
County collector of revenue to collect levee tax — to give bond to board of supervisors.
Section
245.205
Secretary of board to extend and certify levee tax to collector-treasurers — duties of collector-treasurer — county collector-treasurer to collect delinquent taxes.
Section
245.210
Levee tax delinquent December thirty-first — penalty.
Section
245.215
Levee tax to constitute a lien — how evidenced — acquisition of lands, duty to satisfy outstanding liens, limitation.
Section
245.220
Tax book to be prima facie evidence — suits for taxes brought in circuit court.
Section
245.225
Suits and notices to be filed in recorder's office against last record owners.
Section
245.230
Board may issue bonds — how funds are to be used.
Section
245.235
Unpaid warrants to draw interest.
Section
245.240
Surety bonds to be made payable to district.
Section
245.245
Board to appoint inspectors — duties and powers of inspectors.
Section
245.250
County collectors — penalty for failure to pay over tax, fee for collection of tax.
Section
245.255
Change of venue.
Section
245.260
Action not to abate by reason of death of party.
Section
245.265
Appeal not to act as supersedeas.
Section
245.270
Liability of reorganized district.
Section
245.275
Procedure in dissolving levee district.
Section
245.280
Sections construed — existing rights not to be affected.
Section
245.285
Defining the term levee districts — applicable to districts now organized or which may be organized.
Section
245.290
County commissions may establish levee districts.
Section
245.295
Districts may be formed at regular meetings of governing body.
Section
245.300
Notice to be given — mailing required.
Section
245.305
Lands subject to overflow may be included in levee district.
Section
245.310
Extending levees and levee districts.
Section
245.315
Existing levee districts may organize under this law.
Section
245.320
Change of organization to be submitted to an election.
Section
245.325
Simple majority to decide election.
Section
245.330
Effect of reorganization of old districts.
Section
245.335
Board of directors of levees appointed by county commission.
Section
245.340
Oath of directors.
Section
245.345
Board to organize.
Section
245.350
Majority of board a quorum.
Section
245.355
Duties of president and secretary.
Section
245.360
Pay of directors.
Section
245.365
Board to determine what work is necessary.
Section
245.370
Work to be let to lowest bidder.
Section
245.375
Contractors to give bond.
Section
245.380
Board to supervise work.
Section
245.385
Board to secure right-of-way.
Section
245.390
Board to act with United States agencies.
Section
245.395
Board to publish statement of work done.
Section
245.400
Board may change location of levee.
Section
245.405
Levees may be used as roadbeds and roadbeds may be used as levees.
Section
245.410
Duty of railroads, when levee passes along embankment.
Section
245.415
Railroads to continue levee.
Section
245.420
Landowner may continue levee to railroad grade and recover costs — notice to be given.
Section
245.430
Private roadways to have approaches.
Section
245.445
Board to assess levee fund tax.
Section
245.450
Assessment of overflowed lands.
Section
245.455
Lands to be entered on book for that purpose.
Section
245.460
Levee assessment books returned to whom — meeting of landowners.
Section
245.465
County board of equalization to have jurisdiction over lands.
Section
245.470
Landowners to determine work to be done.
Section
245.475
Board to order rate percent levee assessment — annual installment payments.
Section
245.480
Additional taxes for enlarging and strengthening levee.
Section
245.483
Construction or improvement of levees to protect lands in other districts — procedure — costs, how paid.
Section
245.485
Additional tax may be ordered when costs exceed estimates.
Section
245.490
Board may borrow money.
Section
245.495
Board may issue warrants.
Section
245.500
Form of warrants.
Section
245.505
Sinking fund moneys may be invested.
Section
245.515
County treasurer to be treasurer of board.
Section
245.520
Compensation of engineers and other officers and employees.
Section
245.525
Herding livestock on levee prohibited.
Section
245.530
Penalty for failure of road overseers to keep road crossings in repair.
Section
245.540
Commissions may appropriate swamplands.
Section
245.545
Circuit judge to give penal sections in charge to grand jury.